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It undeniably hurts HTC's profits though. Sucks for those that have to pay this Microsoft tax. And it also does hurt Google in the sense that this cost is bei
by marcf 15y ago
It undeniably hurts HTC's profits though. Sucks for those that have to pay this Microsoft tax. And it also does hurt Google in the sense that this cost is being passed to Google's customers rather than Google taking this burden.
- protomyth 15y agoI would imagine the S3 purchase has the nice side effect of offsetting some of the costs per phone and gaining HTC their own licensing property. I also see the S3 purchase as helping them in the whole customized ARM game. Cell phones are massive chunks of patents and HTC knows the space well.
- nextparadigms 15y agoHTC is paying $5 per phone, but they also get protection against Apple. I don't think HTC would've signed the deal with Microsoft, if it wasn't for the Apple lawsuit.
- marcf 15y agoI figure though HTC's profit per phone is likely on the order of $20 or less? (I'm guessing here but I should be in the ballpark.) Thus $5 per phone is hugely significant.
- darklajid 15y agoAre you really serious/sure? http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/HTC-Droid-Incredible-Carries-163-35-Bill-of-Materials-iSuppli-Teardown-Reveals.aspx http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/HTC-Droid-Incred...
- woobar 15y agoBill of Materials is just a fraction of their expenses. We can estimate per phone profit from the quarterly report [1]. - Q1 after-tax profit was NT$14.83bn - Handset shipment for 1Q was 9.7mn units ~ NT$1500 per phone (~US$55/per phone) [1] http://www.corpasia.net/taiwan/2498/irwebsite/index.php?mod=announcedetail&id=391 http://www.corpasia.net/taiwan/2498/irwebsite/index.php?mod=...